From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:54:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20100319115445.GA12986@glandium.org> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <4BA338C1.7030803@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 12:55:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nsan5-0004rs-AH for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:54:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752138Ab0CSLyx (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:54:53 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([85.19.221.46]:54365 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751946Ab0CSLyx (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:54:53 -0400 Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=glandium.org) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsanZ-0004wD-WD; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:55:32 +0100 Received: from mh by glandium.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nsamr-0005eb-SL; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:54:45 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Status: (score 2.5): No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:45:38AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > here is where you are missing the point. > > no, there is not 'much less chance' of it getting messed up. > > you seem to assume that people would never need to set the UUID on > multiple machines. > > if they don't need to set it on multiple machines, then the > e-mail/userid is going to be reliable anyway > > if they do need to set it on multiple machines and can't be bothered > to keep their e-mail consistant, why would they bother keeping this > additional thing considtant? Linus is pointing out that people don't > care now about their e-mail and name, and will care even less about > some abstract UUID > > people who care will already make their e-mail consistant. While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus, but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed. Mike